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The scale of the regulatory hurdles faced by the Mackenzie Valley Gas Pipeline project in Canada “rivals the complexity and uncertainty of regulatory and policy making found anywhere overseas,” according to gas analyst Paul Ziff.

The scale of the regulatory hurdles faced by the Mackenzie Valley Gas Pipeline project in Canada “rivals the complexity and uncertainty of regulatory and policy making found anywhere overseas,” according to gas analyst Paul Ziff.

While the odds of the U.S. getting hit by another blackout on the scale of the one last year on Aug. 14 appear to be “a little less likely” as the country approaches the one-year anniversary of that historic event, David Brown, a vice-president at NUS Consulting, believes that there hasn’t been adequate follow through on a final report examining the outage completed by a joint U.S.-Canada task force earlier this year.

Everyone from President George W. Bush on down who is touting a hydrogen-based energy future is undecided about how it will be accomplished, but natural gas is always part of the equation, and that may have to change, according to an ExxonMobil official.

The construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminals has been and will continue to be environmentally-constrained, making potential U.S. consumers an insignificant blip in the world natural gas market, according to an article written by Leonardo Maugeri, an executive with the Italian oil company Eni SpA, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal Online Monday.

Doubt still clouds the scale that will be attained, but development of coalbed methane shows signs of beginning in earnest in Canada as natural gas producers seek substitutes for aging conventional supplies.

Doubt still clouds the scale that will be attained, but development of coalbed methane shows signs of beginning in earnest in Canada as natural gas producers seek substitutes for aging conventional supplies.

Despite the fact that producers are continuing to scale back natural gas drilling activity in response to lower prices while the economy strengthens, Arlington, VA-based Energy and Environmental Analysis Inc. (EEA) said that the balance for gas supply and demand will continue to remain relatively loose throughout most of 2002. The consulting firm cited working gas in storage as the main reason.

Despite the fact that producers are continuing to scale back natural gas drilling activity in response to lower prices while the economy strengthens, Arlington, VA-based Energy and Environmental Analysis Inc. (EEA) said that the balance for gas supply and demand will continue to remain relatively loose throughout most of 2002. The consulting firm cited working gas in storage as the main reason.